Daisy Bowman searches for a husband to avoid marrying the man her father has picked out.

At the bride-viewing ceremony, Jagdish makes up excuses to avoid marrying her, such as commenting that she is old-fashioned.

Am I so fearsome that you must sneak out of the house in the middle of the night to avoid marrying me?

And after that, she says, there was no way she could avoid marrying Dominick Pezzulo.

The Patharkat are endogamous, but avoid marrying among close, but they have no system of exogamous clans.

The Vertali consider themselves a superior people and avoid marrying the Khaltali.

Cohen believed that women should be aware of the sexual orientation of a potential husband so they would avoid marrying a homosexual man.

Shirin, in order to avoid marrying Shiroyeh, kills herself.

It is difficult for the close-knitted Orang Kanaq community to be separated as they avoid marrying outsiders.

Even into the 1980s in some villages populated by noble families, the members of the nobility avoided marrying commoners.